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    Posted 9 years ago

    SpiritBear
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    Not written on, this postcard shows the damage to the City Hall in San Francisco after the quake. They've cleaned up the roads and are working on new water-mains, I believe (pipes. See post after this for a first-hand account.)

    You can see how ruined the building is, yet that proud dome survived (second dome seems to have collapsed.)

    Here's how it used to look, from another angle:
    https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/47/SF_City_Hall.jpg

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    Comments

    1. SpiritBear, 9 years ago
      As an interesting note, it took 25 years to build and not 2 minutes to destroy.
    2. AnnaB AnnaB, 9 years ago
      It's true for everything, building something takes much longer than destroying it...
    3. SpiritBear, 9 years ago
      They've for the past few days been destroying the biggest building in my area: Comerica Bank, which was 5 stories. (They built a new 2-story Comerica next door.)
      :/
    4. SpiritBear, 9 years ago
      It's now been 110 years to the day.

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